Lizzie's Character Sketch

Lizzie’s Character Sketch

Physical Characteristics

  5’ 3”

 @130 lbs.

 Frizzy, reddish brown hair

 Piercing, ice blue eyes

 Round face with sallow complexion

 Very soft voiced

 Not stupid—but not particularly quick-witted

 Plodding but methodical

 Slow and deliberate

 Slow to rile—but even slower to cool off and let the perceived offense pass



Lizzie has basically been raised by her sister Emma—ten years her senior.  She is initially a trusting soul—someone who is easily manipulated.    She is a guileless innocent, who has been systematically convinced that her father cannot be trusted (this is something that she manages to resist for quite a while).  She has also been indoctrinated with the ideas that her stepmother is hateful and greedy—someone who will go to any length to cheat them out of their rightful inheritance.



She is shy, and socially awkward.  She very much wants to be clever and popular, but somehow her attempts are a series of faux pas.  She likes nice things, and feels that her parents and life style hold her back.  At best she is sexually immature—probably sexually ambivalent.  She does not like to touch, or be touched.  But then her family is not ‘touchy-feely’—at least, not in a good way.



She attended Fall River High School, but did not graduate, choosing instead to drop out and confine herself to home and church activities.  Of course this cuts her off from her peers and makes her even more ‘peculiar’.



She had gone on a four month Grand Tour of Europe the summer of ’90 and had a taste of freedom—from her dreary home life, her stifling parents and, for the first time, her subtly controlling sister.  She is exposed to the life she suspected everyone around her already lived—a life of nice clothes, fine food and time to enjoy them. 



She is a tortured soul—torn between her conscience and the love for her sister.